A few days ago we had an issue where our switches locked up. After resetting the switches, we started getting reports that "wireless was down." Using a laptop to test... i am able to see our WAPs... I can connect to the WAP using the WPA2 key... but when I should be getting assigned an IP address I get nothing and the device drops to limited/no connectivity. Checking the Sonicwall, it now no longer sees the Sonic Points either. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Not sure i'f I'm looking at a switch/VLAN issue or mayube a firewall issue on the Sonicwall.

Well, honestly we're pushing over a year on this issue, so my memory of the exact fix is kind of fuzzy... but I believe it ended up being mis-configured VLANS on the switch that the sonic points connected to. In the end, we were actually looking to hire another Admin at the time and so happened we picked up someone SonicWall certified who on his 2nd day said "Wireless is fixed." :) and that was good enough for me.

A few days ago we had an issue where our switches locked up. After resetting the switches, we started getting reports that "wireless was down." Using a laptop to test... i am able to see our WAPs... I can connect to the WAP using the WPA2 key... but when I should be getting assigned an IP address I get nothing and the device drops to limited/no connectivity. Checking the Sonicwall, it now no longer sees the Sonic Points either. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Not sure i'f I'm looking at a switch/VLAN issue or mayube a firewall issue on the Sonicwall.

Assign the SonicPoints to their own zone - this is PURELY to manage the SonicPoints have has nothing to do with (any of) the SSIDs - they are assigned separate zones so to allow better firewall management.

Ensure DHCP is turned ON for the SonicPoint zone so that the firewall will assign IP's to the Access Points.

On the switch, ensure that the X port (lets say X3) is on its own VLAN and not a member of any other VLANs (save for later when you would add VLANs for the Virtual SSIDs). Make sure that you are tagging this VLAN on any trunks/links etc between switches so that you are spreading it about your network.

If the above is in place, then any issues above can be sorted by Synchronising or Deleting the AP's from the SonicWall interface and then they will be "re-found" by the appliance and setup again using the VAP profile.

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